Item #513236 Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; how to find gold; camp life at Klondike; Practical Instructions for Fortune Seekers, Etc., Etc. A C. Harris.
Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; how to find gold; camp life at Klondike; Practical Instructions for Fortune Seekers, Etc., Etc.

Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; how to find gold; camp life at Klondike; Practical Instructions for Fortune Seekers, Etc., Etc.

Washington: J.R. Jones, 1897. 8vo. 528 pp. plus three [3] illustrated plates. Folding chromolithographic map removed. With frontispiece and illustrated throughout with half-tones and wood-engravings. Original dark yellow cloth, decoratively stamped front cover and spine. First edition, one of six editions published in the same year in places as disparate as Chicago and Philadelphia. "Including "Mrs. Eli Gage's Experiences of a Year among the Yukon Mining Camps; Mrs. Schwatka's Recollections of her husband as the Alaskan Pathfinder; Prosaic Side of Gold Hunting, as seen by Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras" [title-page]. Wickersham 3927. Tourville #1958. Good with scuffed extremities, overall moderate wear and hinges starting. Item #513236

Price: $150.00

See all items by